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"Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world..." — so says the Journey song. But Steve Perry wasn't really talking about the country kid who knew how to catch a greased pig and muck out a horse stall before the rest of America had tuned into David Hartman and Joan Lunden talking about Prince Charles and Lady Di's wedding on Good Morning America. This was a different kind of lonely — and it wasn't all bad. The 1980s were the last decade where true isolation was still possible (we're talking rural isolation), and the kids who had the...